[kaffe] Details on backported stuff...

[Jim Pick]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:57:04 -0700
Jim Pick <jim@kaffe.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:26:50 -0600
> Timothy Stack <stack@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not seeing this, whats the error?  I'm using jikes 1.18 btw...
> 
> It's segfaulting.
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x4004ffd9 in pushFrame (pe=0xbffff180, ps=0xbffff010, op=3, script_pos=0xc, values_pos=12,
>     args=0xc <Address 0xc out of bounds>) at ../../../kaffe/kaffe/kaffevm/stringParsing.c:115
> 115                     VA_LIST_COPY(pf->args, args);
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x4004ffd9 in pushFrame (pe=0xbffff180, ps=0xbffff010, op=3, script_pos=0xc, values_pos=12,
>     args=0xc <Address 0xc out of bounds>) at ../../../kaffe/kaffe/kaffevm/stringParsing.c:115
> #1  0x4005098a in parseString_private (pe=0xbffff180, subString=0x7, script=0x0, values=0x0, op=3,
>     args=0xbffff1ac "\f") at ../../../kaffe/kaffe/kaffevm/stringParsing.c:605
> #2  0x40050fc5 in parseString (str=0xc <Address 0xc out of bounds>, op=5)
>     at ../../../kaffe/kaffe/kaffevm/stringParsing.c:806
> #3  0x08049bb5 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff2d4) at ../../../kaffe/test/internal/jit_stub.c:165
> 
> This is on a Debian unstable machine, "gcc version 3.3.2 20030812
> (Debian prerelease)", Jikes 1.18.  I'm not seing this on my Red Hat 8.0
> machine.  I'll dig deeper.

It looks like va_start() is doing something weird.  I'm going to assume
that there's just something weird with my toolchain on that machine, and
I'm going to upgrade it.

Cheers,

 - Jim